# μακάριος
## Ancient Greek
### Etymology

μάκαρ (mákar, “blessed”) +‎ -ιος (-ios, adjective suffix).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ma.ká.ri.os/ → /maˈka.ri.os/ → /maˈka.ri.os/
* (5th BCE Attic) IPA: /ma.ká.ri.os/
* (1st CE Egyptian) IPA: /maˈka.ri.os/
* (4th CE Koine) IPA: /maˈka.ri.os/
* (10th CE Byzantine) IPA: /maˈka.ri.os/
* (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA: /maˈka.ri.os/

### Adjective

μᾰκάρῐος • (măkárĭos) m (feminine μᾰκᾰρίᾱ, neuter μᾰκάρῐον); first/second declension
* (mostly of men) blessed, happy
** 522 BCE – 443 BCE, Pindar, Pythian Ode 5.61
** 408 BCE, Euripides, Orestes 86
** 380 BCE, Plato, The Republic 354A
** 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Nichomachean Ethics 1.10.14–16
** 342 BCE – 290 BCE, Menander, The Demiurge 2, (compare Monostiches 357)
** 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Protagoras 309C
** 380 BCE, Plato, The Republic 432D
** 424 BCE, Aristophanes, The Knights 186, (compare The Wasps 1512)
** 380 BCE, Plato, Euthydemus 303C
** 422 BCE, Aristophanes, The Wasps 1292
** 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Cyropaedia 8.3.39
** (often in Plato as a plural substantive) the rich and better educated
*** 380 BCE, Plato, The Republic 335E, (compare Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics 8.5.3, Aristotle, Politics 7.1.4)
*** 386 BCE – 367 BCE, Plato, Meno 71A
*** 342 BCE – 290 BCE, Menander, The Harp-Player 1.6
** (of the dead)
*** 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Laws 947D, (compare Aristophanes, Fragments 445)
** (of states, qualities, and the like)
*** 408 BCE, Euripides, Orestes 1208
*** 415 BCE, Euripides, The Trojan Women 327

#### Descendants

* → Coptic: ⲙⲁⲕⲁⲣⲓⲟⲥ (makarios)
* → Greek: μακάριος (makários) (learned)
* Greek: μακάρι (makári) (see there for further descendants)

### References

* ↑ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “μάκαρ (> DER > μακάριος)”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 893

### Further reading

* “μακάριος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “μακάριος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
* μακάριος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
* “μακάριος”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
* G3107 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
* μακάριος in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th–12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
* Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited. blessed idem, page 83.blissful idem, page 84.fortunate idem, page 340.happy idem, page 384.joyful idem, page 464.prosperous idem, page 653.successful idem, page 834.
* “μακάριος”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011

## Greek
### Etymology

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek μακάριος (makários, “blessed”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /maˈka.ɾi.os/
* Hyphenation: μα‧κά‧ρι‧ος

### Adjective

μακάριος • (makários) m (feminine μακάρια, neuter μακάριο)
* blissful (extremely happy; full of joy; experiencing, indicating, causing, or characterized by bliss)
    μακάρια άγνοια (ironic) ― makária ágnoia ― blissful ignorance
* (dated) blessed (having divine aid, or protection, or other blessing)
    Synonym: ευλογημένος (evlogiménos)

#### Related terms

* μακάρι (makári)
* μακάρια (makária, adverb)
* (learned) μακαρίως (makaríos, adverb)

### References

* ↑ μακάριος, in Λεξικό της κοινής νεοελληνικής [Dictionary of Standard Modern Greek], Triantafyllidis Foundation, 1998 at the Centre for the Greek language